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IN FOCUS: Channel 4’s experimental new series follows a group of virgins as they attend a sex therapy retreat in Croatia with the aim of having intercourse with a ‘sexual surrogate’ after two weeks. Annabel Nugent and Victoria Richards speak to an expert about the controversial profession

"A new low for British television."

The actress worked alongside her mother in Channel 4 drama I Am Ruth

The show centres on 12 adults, all virgins aged between 22 and 30, who are sent to a luxury Mediterranean island for two weeks to work with sex and intimacy experts

As 12 virgins try ‘sexual surrogacy’ and roll around on the floor moaning, this sexperiment is surprisingly touching. Still, you will watch the excruciating bits through your fingers

3/5 Think ‘Love Island’ for adult virgins and you’ll be close to the brief – it could be disastrous but Channel 4 just about pulls it off

2/5 Nobody wants to remember their first times; on Virgin Island, 12 people are being asked to immortalise theirs on national television, inconvenient boners and all

The therapists in this new Channel 4 series have defended themselves against criticism about the ethics of the practice of sex surrogacy

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"Morality continues to decline."